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Better Than Money – Audio Book
A Family Story of Grief, Gratitude, and Grace
In 2009, radio journalist Joe McHugh set out on a journey to find the family of an African-American woman named Helen who cared for him when he was a young child and who helped his family survive a terrible tragedy. Armed only with her first name and a passing reference to a house fire in a letter written in 1952, he visited the places that shaped the early lives of his parents, interviewed family members and historians, and searched through archives in hopes of uncovering a clue that might lead him to his goal.
This is the chronicle of that quest. It is also a meditation on how relationships, especially those during early childhood, determine the physical structure and health of our brains and how love and faith, even during the darkest of times, can transform our lives in ways beyond imagining.
Well, according to a youngster from West Virginia, the folktales found in this audio book are just that. Written and told by master storyteller Joe McHugh these simple yarns of giants and wizards and ghostly visitations represent oral literature at its very best. Faithfully handed down from one generation to the next, they are the currency of the imagination that help us better understand the mysterious and magical journey of life. There are eleven stories plus an introduction in this 2 hour and 30 minute production.
$7.95
Product Description
Inside Better Than Money, Tales to Treasure for a Lifetime, audio book You will enjoy 2 hours and 30 minutes of you will meet Zola Hutchinson and her ‘slappy-jack,” a troublemaking old woman and the wizard who puts her straight, an Irish storyteller who needs a new story to tell, Willie, the horse-trader - “the wickedest man who ever was,” an orphan boy with a unique talent, the greedy General who makes an unwise bargain, lazy Jack and his “granddaddy” of cornstalks, a worried father and a supernatural white deer, an old-time country doctor out on a stormy winter’s night on an errand of mercy, a very foolish talior, and three sons who vie for their father’s inheritance.
